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Garrison Keillor Doesn’t Like Jews Writing Christmas Songs

Those Unitarians are ruining his holiday season, too
By Marissa Brostoff | 4:14 PM Dec 17, 2009

Garrison Keillor, self-appointed cultural representative of regular old Americans, ruffled some feathers yesterday with a mildly xenophobic rant about Christmas. After lambasting a Unitarian church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for “spiritual piracy and cultural elitism”—tweaking the lyrics of “Silent Night” for a singalong, in layman’s terms—he turned his ire in a different direction:
And all those lousy ...

ADL Catalogues U.S. ‘Rage’

And blames Glenn Beck for stoking it
By Orlee Maimon | 1:00 PM Nov 18, 2009

The Anti-Defamation League released a report this week detailing what it calls the rise of rage in the United States. Who’s to blame for all this rage? That’s the fun part of the study: Abe Foxman & Co. finger Fox News host Glenn Beck, the “fearmonger-in-chief” and the “most important mainstream media figure … helping ...

Glenn Beck Announces Yom Kippur Fast

His is for the Republic, not for redemption.
By Allison Hoffman | 12:02 PM Sep 22, 2009

We were busy last Saturday, and so we failed to notice that Fox News host Glenn Beck chose Rosh Hashanah to declare his latest initiative: a day of Fast and Prayer for the Republic. When, exactly, will this new fast day fall? Conveniently enough for us, on Yom Kippur! In a Twitter post, Beck exhorted ...